Trek Madone 5.2 WSD Compact
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Watch the miles fly by on Trek's amazing Madone 5.2 WSD. Sporting Trek's lauded OCLV Black carbon frame, this women's specific road rocket boasts ingenious technology for a superior ride. Trek adorns this beauty with a 90mm-wide bottom bracket for maximum efficiency, a sealed headset and bottom bracket bearings that simply press into the frame saving weight and reducing maintenance, and a seat mast that saves even more weight, while also boosting compliance for supreme comfort. This trick machine is equipped with Bontrager's corner-carving Race X Lite fork and Shimano's Ultegra SL 10-speed components for flawless shifting and braking, too. You'll love the aero Bontrager Race Lite wheels and women's-specific saddle and bars as well.
Bontrager's Race X Lite Carbon Fork uses a standard 1 1/8-inch steerer diameter at the top in combination with a 1 1/2-inch bottom diameter to increase fork stiffness and strength. This ingenious design also significantly reduces the weight thanks to its oversize bottom, which allows the use of a hollow aluminum crown bonded to hollow carbon legs (as opposed to the solid aluminum crowns found on most traditional forks).
Trek's Madones use an oversize front end that increases efficiency, ride quality and stability. Here you can see the head tube, which tapers to 1 1/2-inch diameter at the base to accommodate Trek's Bontrager Carbon forks with E2 steerers. This steerer is 1 1/2-inches in diameter at the base for maximum steering control, strength and weight savings (because it's possible to use less material in the fork).
Trek's Madone features a unique bottom bracket (image, right) that's 90mm wide (traditional ones are 68mm wide). This wide bottom bracket lets Trek build the frame with larger tubes for increased power transfer. Plus, the 90mm bottom bracket is machined so that the bearings can be placed directly into the frame (image) saving weight (due to fewer parts), ensuring additional pedaling efficiency and simplifying maintenance and repair.
Left to right: cutaway view of traditional seatpost, cutaway view of Madone seat mast, photo of Madone seat mast.
Instead of a conventional seatpost, Trek's Madone boasts a seat mast (image). Compared to traditional seatposts (image, left) and also modern integrated seat masts, this engineering masterpiece boosts strength and pedaling efficiency, saves weight, increases compliance a whopping 39% (for maximum comfort), and offers all the adjustability you'll ever need (no cutting required). It lets your Trek fit in a UPS-compatible box for shipping, too!
This chart shows the maximum seat height for each Madone frame size. To determine which is right for you, we recommend measuring the seat height on your current bicycle.
This manufacturer's chart helps you check the fit
(may show unavailable, and/or not all sizes).
Trek's WSD bikes feature women's-specific frames and components for a wonderful, custom fit and amazing ride. For example, the frames sport short top tubes, tall head tubes, steeper seat-tube angles and decreased head angles. These details ensure top-notch handling, comfort and pedaling efficiency. Complementing the great ride are proportional crankarms, anatomic saddles, narrow handlebars, short-reach controls and small-diameter grips. Take a test ride and experience the difference!
The Madone 5.2 is built of Trek's OCLV Black carbon. This enthusiast-level carbon employs intermediate-modulus carbon and a sophisticated lay-up for a light, stiff and compliant bicycle ideal for all-around road riding.
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Specs
| Frame | Trek OCLV Black carbon |
|---|---|
| Fork | Bontrager Race X Lite carbon w/E2 aluminum steerer |
| Rims/Wheels | Bontrager Race Lite wheelset |
| Hubs | See Rims/Wheels |
| Spokes | See Rims/Wheels |
| Tires | Bontrager Race X Lite, 700 x 23c (folding) |
| Crankset | Shimano Ultegra SL |
| Chainrings | 50/34 |
| Front Derailleur | Shimano Ultegra SL |
| Rear Derailleur | Shimano Ultegra SL |
| Rear Cogs | Shimano 105, 10-speed: 12-25 |
| Shifters | Shimano Ultegra SL STI |
| Handlebars | Bontrager FIT VR |
| Stem | Bontrager Race X Lite |
| Brake Levers | Shimano Ultegra SL STI |
| Brakes | Shimano Ultegra SL |
| Saddle | Bontrager Race Lite FIT |
| Seatpost | Trek Carbon Seat Mast Cap |
* Subject to change without notice.